Separation of phasic arousal and expectancy effects in a speeded reaction time task via fMRI

Psychophysiology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 163-171

  Hackley, Steven A ^a   Langner, Robert ^b   Rolke, Bettina ^b   Erb, Michael ^b   Grodd, Wolfgang ^b   Ulrich, Rolf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arousal; Attention; Expectancy; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Motor; Reaction time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 58149141477     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2008.00722.x     Document Type: Article

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